# leasing

Pronunciation: say "LEE-sing" /ˈliːsɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of lease. — present participle and gerund of lease
   - Simple: The -ing form of lease. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.
   - _The city has been leasing the old warehouse to a local brewery for years._
   - _The office router is leasing addresses to every laptop that joins the network._

## Noun

2. Gerund of lease. — gerund of lease
   - Simple: The -ing form of lease. Use it to name the action.
   - _The firm specializes in the leasing of aircraft to smaller airlines._
   - _Equipment leasing let the startup spend its cash on hiring instead of machines._

## Noun

3. Lying or falsehood, or a particular untruth that someone tells. *(archaic)* (pronounced: say "LEE-zing" /ˈliːzɪŋ/)
   - Simple: A lie, or the act of telling lies.
   - _Her enemies spread leasings about her at court until the queen turned against her._
   - _He swore before the council that his account held no leasing._

## Other meanings

- (verb) Present participle of lease in the obsolete sense "to tell lies".

## Origin

**Meaning 3** — From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“lying, false witness, deceit, a lie, empty talk”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu and Proto-Germanic *lausungō; it is equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. It is related to Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“release, solution”) and Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).
**Meanings 1–2** — Formed from lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/leasing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).